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Agent infrastructure

Plumbing for AI agents: tool access, memory, browsers, email and payments.

ESSENTIAL IN AGENT INFRASTRUCTURE

  1. 1Password

    Password manager (Toronto) that now offers '1Password for Agents', a platform that lets personal AI agents sign in to your accounts without ever…

    FREE TIER

  2. AgentMail

    Email inboxes for AI agents, via API (YC, General Catalyst).

    FREE TIER

All 35 Agent infrastructure tools

  1. 1Password

    Password manager (Toronto) that now offers '1Password for Agents', a platform that lets personal AI agents sign in to your accounts without ever…

    EssentialFree tier

  2. AgentMail

    Email inboxes for AI agents, via API (YC, General Catalyst).

    EssentialFree tier

  3. Agent Relay

    Messaging layer so AI agents can talk to each other directly instead of through you: channels, DMs, shared searchable session history, hand-offs and…

    Worth a lookFree tier

  4. agent-desktop

    Free Vercel Labs tool that lets AI coding agents see and operate desktop apps on Mac, Windows and Linux.

    Worth a lookFree / open source

  5. Agentcard (opencommerce)

    Payments and checkout for AI agents (YC S26).

    Worth a lookFree tier

  6. Browser Use

    Agents that use the browser: open-source framework plus cloud browsers for AI agents.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  7. Browserbase

    Cloud headless-browser infrastructure for AI agents (creators of the open-source Stagehand browser-automation framework).

    Worth a lookFree tier

  8. CLI-Anything

    Open-source project from HKU Data Intelligence Lab (HKUDS) that wraps ordinary desktop software (e.g.

    Worth a lookFree / open source

  9. CopilotKit

    The frontend stack for agents and generative UI; open source (MIT); creators of the AG-UI protocol.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  10. Google ADK (Agent Development Kit)

    Google's open-source, code-first framework for building, evaluating and deploying AI agents (Python, TypeScript, Go, Java), with multi-agent patterns…

    Worth a lookFree / open source

  11. Harness2 (Google Research)

    Open-source (Apache 2.0) research framework from Google Cloud AI Research that automatically improves an agent's harness (system prompt, guardrails,…

    Worth a lookFree / open source

  12. HarnessRouter

    Open-source gateway (Community Edition, Apache-2.0, self-hosted via Docker) that runs existing agent harnesses such as Codex, Claude Code, Hermes and…

    Worth a lookFree tier

  13. Inkbox

    Identity and communication layer for AI agents: email, phone, iMessage and Agent2Agent under one identity (YC S26).

    Worth a lookFree tier

  14. Manufact (mcp-use)

    The MCP cloud: deploy, test and monitor MCP servers and ChatGPT/Claude apps; from the makers of mcp-use.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  15. Mem0

    Memory layer for AI assistants and agents: stores and recalls facts, preferences and past conversations so a bot remembers each user across sessions.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  16. Mintive

    Enterprise infrastructure for company AI agents: MCP gateway (approved tools), LLM gateway (approved models, budgets), Agent Identity (each agent…

    Worth a lookContact sales

  17. Monid

    'OpenRouter for agent tools': one skill unlocks 1,800+ tools and APIs, paid per call.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  18. OpenAI Agents SDK (TypeScript)

    OpenAI's open-source SDK for building agents in TypeScript.

    Worth a lookFree / open source

  19. Photon

    Bring agents to iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, Discord and other channels people already use.

    Worth a lookFree tier

  20. WebMCP (Google Chrome)

    Proposed web standard that lets a website expose structured 'tools' (e.g. search_products, add_to_cart, book_table) to AI agents running in the…

    Worth a lookFree / open source

  21. 1Claw

    Secret management for AI agents: an HSM-backed vault, MCP server and policy-based access.

    NicheFree tier

  22. agent-browser

    Browser automation CLI designed for AI agents (native Rust).

    NicheFree / open source

  23. AQuA – Ambient Quality Agent (Google ADK)

    Open-source Google ADK recipe for an 'outer loop' agent that keeps evaluating a production AI agent's traces (BigQuery Agent Analytics, Cloud Trace…

    NicheFree / open source

  24. Blaxel

    Infrastructure for autonomous agents: microVM sandboxes, memory and networking.

    NicheFree tier

  25. Flue

    The open agent framework: build durable AI agents with a programmable TypeScript harness.

    NicheFree / open source

  26. Goshen Email

    Open-source email inboxes for AI agents, self-hostable on Cloudflare.

    NicheFree tier

  27. Hy-Memory (Tencent Hunyuan)

    Tencent Hunyuan's open-source long-term memory stack for AI agents (v2.0): the hy-memory Python SDK, MemHub (local-first desktop/CLI app that imports…

    NicheFree / open source

  28. Island Enterprise Browser for Agents

    Company-controlled browser and MCP server so AI agents can use business web apps safely.

    NicheEnterprise

  29. meaningtech (Fluxkit, Growup)

    Italian 'decision infrastructure' studio; products include Fluxkit agent toolkit and open-source Growup.

    NicheFree / open source

  30. Mubit

    'Agentic runtime calibration' platform: point your agents' model calls at Mubit (one-line SDK init for OpenAI/Anthropic/LiteLLM), it records traces…

    NichePricing unknown

  31. nekuda

    Makes websites actionable for AI agents via WebMCP tools, skills and policy.

    NicheFree trial

  32. PhoneUse

    Phones for AI agents: gives Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf or your own code a phone through an MCP server, API or CLI (12 tools such as acquire…

    NichePaid

  33. PraisonAI

    Open-source multi-agent framework (agents, workflows, memory, RAG, MCP).

    NicheFree / open source

  34. Sequential Thinking MCP

    MCP server giving agents a structured, revisable step-by-step thinking tool.

    NicheFree / open source

  35. Treg

    'OpenRouter for tools': one MCP server/key for 4,000+ agent-friendly data and tool endpoints.

    NicheFree tier